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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.--Kay Stephenson, whose Buffalo Bills won only two of their National Football League games last season and are winless so far this year, was fired yesterday as head coach, the team announced...
...ears bear no resemblance, and there is just a hint in the eyes and brows. But John Clark Gable, 24, the son of Clark and Kay Gable, has inherited his father's interest in racing and nurtured it into a full-time career. Last year, aided by finishing third in the Baja 1,000, he won the off-road racing Rookie of the Year title. And next week Gable will enter the Frontier 500 in Las Vegas, looking for his first win. He has no ambitions to try his luck in the Hollywood fast lane, but is something...
...Mary Kay Cosmetics has become famous for rewarding its top sales women with pink Cadillacs, diamond-studded bumblebee pins and expense-paid trips to Hawaii. Such glitzy incentives are not the norm among publicly traded companies, but Mary Kay (1984 sales: $278 million) does not have to worry. It will no longer be listed on any exchange. The company's directors last week agreed to sell the firm for $300 million to a group headed by Chairman Mary Kay Ash and her son Richard Rogers, the president...
...founded the cosmetics distributor in 1963, became a multimillionaire after selling stock to the public in 1968. In recent years, though, she has wanted to return the firm to family ownership. "When a company is publicly held, you live in a fishbowl," said Monty Barber, a Mary Kay spokesman...
...purchase comes at a time when company sales of skin creams, bath lotions and makeup have been slowing. Once known as a high-growth firm, Mary Kay saw its profits fall from $36.7 million for 1983 to $33.8 million last year. Its stock has taken a sharper plunge. After reaching a high of nearly $45 two years ago, it closed last week...